Under God or Gone Under

“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” - 2 Cor. 3:17

During this election year we are bombarded with information we are uncertain whether to believe. Many voters only care to hear about which politician will service their needs the most.
   Our economy is topsy-turvy with our national debt over $15 trillion and our beautiful Midwestern states find themselves fighting to keep their livestock and livelihood while battling the largest drought of over 50 years. California right now is fighting a massive forest fire.
   There is a battle going on all across our beloved country - a battle between Christianity and secularism, between believers and non-believers. “. . . against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” (Eph. 6:12)

   There is an all-out effort to take God out of our Pledge of Allegiance and to abolish his name and the Ten Commandments from every public building and monument. Christmas and Easter holidays are no longer mentioned in the public schools. They are now called winter and spring breaks.
   Satan and his demons want to destroy America. Just think about it for a minute. Imagine a world without our beloved Christian nation? Just who will be there to send out food, clothes, and aid to flood, hurricane and fire victims? Who will bind up the wounds of those needing aid from the tyrants and war mongers of the world? Yes, Satan would love to annihilate the United States and all that it encompasses.
   Once our economy was the envy of the world, now we can’t print the money fast enough to keep up with our national spending. Once we proudly spoke the Pledge of Allegiance in our classrooms, now it is hardly heard. This generation of Americans did not write the Mayflower Compact, the Constitution of the United States, or the Pledge of Allegiance. This generation did not imprint our currency with “In God We Trust”, or write the songs “God Bless America” or “My Country ‘Tis of Thee.”
   Though non-Christian religions may seek shelter within America’s borders, though agnostics may not like it and atheists may complain, the Constitution of the United States was designed to perpetuate a Christian order. That voice must be heard.
   Woodrow Wilson once wrote: “A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do.”
   In the aftermath of Sept. 11, Christians throughout America prayed to the same God to whom George Washington humbly knelt in the snow at Valley Forge. Before making his decision to enter into a civil war, Abraham Lincoln quoted from Mark 3:25, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” President John F. Kennedy, on Nov. 22, 1963, the day of his assassination, had intended to deliver this speech ending in these words, “We, in this country, in this generation are by destiny rather than choice the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. . .for as was written long ago, ‘except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”
   Congress may have added the “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954; but Abraham Lincoln in his famous Gettysburg Address of Nov. 19,1863 had already established, “That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom. . .” Ronald Reagan once said, “If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”
   The voice and vote of every Christian must speak out. Pat Robertson is asking for a revival in his “Seven Days Ablaze” starting September 17th through the presidential election on November 6th. Cry Out America will gather Christians together on Sept. 11th for prayer: Look for it in your community.
   Christians must pray for our Savior’s protection from America’s newest enemy. Not for protection from the terrorists of Sept. 11, they cannot destroy this nation. Not from the atheists’ attacks, for there were atheists in America during the establishment of the Declaration of Independence. Not from the immigrants of non-Christian religions, for they know more about American evangelists than probably Americans themselves know. No, only apathy can destroy this nation’s liberties, Americans unwilling to uphold what this country was founded upon.

“If my people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” 2 Cor. 7:14

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Catherine Ulrich Brakefield is a published author of two books, numerous short stories and has written for magazines and newspapers. Her writing exemplifies Jesus and her love for people and animals. She and her husband, Edward, reside in Leonard, Michigan, where they enjoy their Arabian horses, dogs, cats, and chickens. She and her husband have two wonderful children and two awesome grandchildren. Check her out at www.catherineulrichbrakefield.com.